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    Big Sis.

    Big Sis is Big Sissabagama Lake near the town of Stone Lake, WI. I first fished there in the summer of 1970. One of my favorite hunting and fishing companions had left his management position at Sears, sold everything they owned and bought Pine Ridge Resort on Big Sis and had invited me and...
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    The Crappie Tree

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell Mid sixties in Northern Virginia. We lived in Arlington. No room for a boat on a trailer at our house; we parked on the street. These were the salad years of my SportYak II and my JW-13 Johnny 3HP outboard. I could carry both at the same time, the 35lb...
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    Of Pecan Harvests & POW's

    I don't remember the exact year. It could have been 1943 or 1944. My half brother, Don, and I often went on day long bicycle tours of Moore County, NC. On this particular Fall day we were on our way from Manly to Niagra, a few miles through sparsely settled rural country. West of the Skyline...
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    Two visits to the USS Arizona BB-39

    I checked in to Air Transport Squadron 21 (VR-21) at NAS Barbers Point, Territory of Hawaii, in August of 1954, fresh from Avionics school in NATTC Millington, TN. I had three, fresh green half chevrons on my sleeve. . .ATAN, E-3. The Personnel Officer looked over my Service Record, such as it...
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    The Worst Road Trip Ever

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell I found this boat on ebay: a 1981 Boston Whaler Outrage 18 with 130HP Yamaha. The seller was an outfit called brokeboats, or something like that. It was an insurance loss. The boat had spent some time hanging from one cable on a davit with the fore part...
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    Being in "the zone"

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell Most of the time I really don't like using English words in ways that do not exactly match their definitions in Webster's. Unfortunately, I don't know the correct English word (if there is one) for the condition that we get into on those rare occasions when...
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    johnson 50hp 1975 problem

    i have a johnson 50 hp 1975electric drive it runs fine. when put in forward prop does not spin and same thing in reverse its like is not going in to gear or some thing can you help us.
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    Curves

    I was watching a TV show last night when a 50' schooner sailed across my 55" screen. When she disappeared I caught myself exhaling. I don't know that I ever realized before that a few sights always have me holding my breath, at least temporarily. That must be the origin of the saying about...
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    The Secret of Shelby Forest

    I started hunting on squirrels. A quiet stalk or peaceful hide in open woods was very well suited to my love of solitude and to my expertise with a .22 rimfire rifle. My Mom, and later the Love Of My Life were both very good at turning a few squirrels and assorted other ingredients into tasty...
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    The Troll Under the Bridge

    I spent my first 17 years in the North Carolina sandhills, where the soil is pure silica sand for many feet. One of the consequences of this is many springs of water as clear as gin and even more pure than most rainwater. "My" woodland pond that you have read of here before was fed by one of...
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    The Fishing Hole at The Hideout

    When we bought The Hideout in 1990 one of the features that mattered to me was a good sized stock tank of about 2 acres and another small one of about 3/4 acre. The tank was pretty silty because it drained about 80 acres of eroded land next door. I took an inflatable out to the center and found...
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    The Day of the Square Grouper

    In the early '80s I was often in the Gulf Stream off of Ft. Lauderdale on weekends trolling for mahi mahi., blackfin tuna, bonito or any billfish that happened along. My primary target was mahi mahi, one of the best table treats that the ocean offers and the easiest to swap for lobster and...
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    Travels with my first born

    I have four children. They are all middle aged now, but when they were growing up I would find time for one-on-one quality time with each of them in addition to our regular family vacations. That quality time involved a variety of activities, but a winter fishing/camping trip was one of my...
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    The day that Sunshine rescued the Centerfold

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell In the early '80s Fort Lauderdale was a favorite Spring Break destination. I guess it still is. Most of the locals went into hiding when the plague of students and student wannabes descended from all over the country, if not the world. My spare bedroom...
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    Uncle Jim

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell In the Spring of 1943 we moved from Carolina Beach back to the Southern Pines/Pinehurst area in NC. It had been the intention of my Mom and my new Step Dad to live permanently at Carolina Beach when we went there in spring of 1941 after their marriage. The...
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    Snake in the Grass

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell Angle Outpost Resort, Northwest Angle of Minnesota on Lake Of The Woods. Early Summer in the first decade of the 21st Century. I am on the porch of our cabin, peering East at the dawn and sipping at my coffee. My son, John, makes the best cup of coffee I...
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    The Year on Lake Minnetonka

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell In April of 1981 I resigned an unsatisfying job in Sarasota, FL and moved back to the Twin Cities vicinity of Minnesota to be close to family and business contacts and to try independent consulting for a living. After some searching I rented a neat little 1...
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    Midnight encounter on Lake Minnetonka

    I spent most of 1981 in a small cabin on Minnesota's Lake Minnetonka a few miles west of Minneapolis. Sunshine, my 1966 Boston Whaler Sakonnet, sat at a small dock about 15 steps from my door. If needed she had a full canvas enclosure so I could go boating in a deluge and stay dry. The nature...
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    "Skin diving" in the Pacific

    From mid-1954 to late 1958 I was stationed at Barber's Point Naval Air Station on the southwestern tip of Oahu, in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. I was assigned to Air Transport Squadron VR-21 as an Avionics Technician and Flight Radio Operator. Missions covered mostly the Pacific, with...
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    In Search for the World's Finest Fishing Hole

    Red Sky at Night with JB Cornwell Winter of 1970 we lived in northern Illinois, about 35 miles west of Chicago. I had been reading in Field and Stream about a new fishery in the canals along the new cross-Florida highway called Alligator Alley that crossed the Big Cypress and Everglades...
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